11 Jun
2016
11 Jun
'16
6:43 p.m.
On Fri, Jun 10, 2016, at 21:45, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
If you express your performances as speeds (as "calculations per second") then the harmonic mean is the right way to average them.
That's true in so far as you get the same result as if you were to take the arithmetic mean of the times and then converted from that to calculations per second. Is there any other particular basis for considering it "right"?